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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1935
Page
4
A devotional note presents Psalm 37 guidance to trust the Lord and do good with a promise of sustenance. It includes Elbert Hubbard’s line valuing a strong back over a burden and a caddy to bear life’s load, urging resilience.
The Evening Journal celebrates its forty two year anniversary noting the 1900 start of the paper’s 20th century rise from The Hustler to The Evening Journal. Founders and early workers are named, with reflections on growth, change, and the paper’s enduring presence in Washington and Washington county.
The statistician notes persistent unemployment and a muted employment upturn despite better business in the United States. Price-driven growth reduces real demand as prices rise while wages lag, and new frugal spending habits endure beyond the hoped-for revival.
A humorous column recounts Mrs. C. A. Speer visiting Des Moines where a pinochle player known to attend sessions near the car barns is studied. a funeral scene is revealed rather than a game outcome. The piece blends humor about aging and optimism with rural anecdotes and light verse.
In a reflection on progress Washington and Washington county celebrate the Journal’s 42nd anniversary. The note credits local residents for support since its early years and expresses gratitude from the staff, including editors, reporters, printers, and carriers, wishing continued happiness and usefulness.
A casual piece notes light snow and forecast rain with warming then freezing ahead. It then wanders to the Hauptmann trial and in a digressive aside asks why to discuss it, ending with a movie review explaining a bachelor girl as a never married woman.
Card of thanks from Cc W Gray expresses sincere appreciation for birthday greetings received. states forty three cards to date and gratitude to all who sent messages.
Dutch Creek township declamatory contest was held at Valley church Friday afternoon. Wellston school won first and second places with Mildred Chorpening taking second in advanced humorous and Loyal Stoutner in advanced oratorical. Glenn Miller was ill and Mrs. Miller taught in his absence. Lloyd Wilson spent Saturday in town.
The item lists social visits and family news from the area. It notes Walter and Glen Wilsons visiting friends, Myral Lemley helping, Mrs. Stoutner and family gatherings, and local pupils starting at Wellston school. It mentions car trouble on muddy roads, a cow loss, a 95th birthday celebration, and a gasoline leak causing a loss of about 260 gallons.
The school held a Valentine party with cookies from Norman Turner and a Lincoln's Birthday program. Measles kept many students away but all are back now for a full room. Grades presented plays and talks, with seventh graders coding a theater scene and a language 4 group performing. An arithmetic contest listed Dorothy Lowash and Georgia Wiley as top scorers.
A Lincoln School report notes a fourth grader with measles and ongoing class activities. Students in fifth grade color valentines and study the Louisiana purchase and Lewis and Clark routes while other pupils read a self authored valentines story.
Lela Miller reports on No. 4 District activities with guests at Brenneman and Patterson homes. Edits include neighbors visiting Muscatine West Chester Ames and Keota moves, Esther Wheelan's appendix operation update, February birthdays among H J Breneman Boyd Stephens and Russell Miller, plus family care updates during bad roads.
Henry J. Allen reports improvements in England after economic downturn. Liverpool shows reduced unemployment, housing reforms rebuild slums into modern flats with baths and sanitation. The piece notes public assistance, housing drives in Liverpool Manchester Leeds and broader reforms in industry including cotton spindle retirements and labor shifts.
In St Louis Missouri Edward M Wat son aged 43 collapsed and died of a heart attack after playing two bowling games.
Detroit's 160 municipal ice-skating rinks serve about 80,000 skaters daily and cost the city roughly one-fourth of a cent per person per day, Recreation Commissioner E. Brewer reports.
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